Contributor
Cahn, Steven M.
Imprint:New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997.
Descriptionviii, 551 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Expanded and updated ed. of: The philosophical foundations of education, 1970.
Note:All are selections unless otherwise noted: PART I: CLASSIC THEORIES: Meno [complete] / Plato -- Protagoras / Plato -- The Republic / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Politics / Aristotle -- Some thoughts concerning education / John Locke -- Emile / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Thoughts on education / Immanuel Kant -- Inaugural address at St. Andrews [complete] / John Stuart Mill -- The aims of education and other essays / Alfred North Whitehead -- The child and the curriculum [complete] / John Dewey -- Democracy and education / John Dewey -- Experience and education [complete] / John Dewey -- PART II. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: A. SCHOOLS: Summerhill / A.S. Neill -- Open education: open to what? [complete] / Kieran Egan -- Spheres of justice / Michael Walzer -- Democratic education / Amy Gutmann -- Moral education and the democratic ideal [complete] / Israel Scheffler -- B. TEACHING: What is teaching? [complete] / Paul H. Hirst -- Education at the crossroads / Jacques Maritain -- Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire -- Caring / Nel Noddings -- The philosophy of childhood / Gareth B. Matthews -- C. CURRICULUM: Education for modern man / Sidney Hook -- Two dogmas of curriculum [complete] / Jane Roland Martin -- The passion of pluralism: multiculturalism and the expanding community [complete] / Maxine Greene -- Hermeneutics, general studies, and teaching [complete] / Richard Rorty -- Traditionalists and their challenges [complete] / John R. Searle -- Asia in the core curriculum [complete] / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
